File:Drawing, Elevation of a Country Villa, ca. 1820 (CH 18550427).jpg

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English: Drawing, Elevation of a Country Villa, ca. 1820   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Elevation of a Country Villa, ca. 1820
Description
English: Elevation of a free standing villa. The central part of the building has two stories, the upper one being octagonal. Steps are leading to a porch with two Ionic columns. In the flanking walls is a window and a frieze above it; another one above the door. Two narrow receding wings project from the walls, each is decorated with a niche occupied by a statue and a frieze. Additional two statues are standing beside the front window in the upper floor. At the ground level, at both ends, are somewhat more receding terraces with a balustrade and a fountain, supported by swans standing in a basin as the concluding motif. The building is elevated on a mass of land
Date circa 1820
date QS:P571,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium pen and black ink, brush and rose, brown and blue watercolor, black wash, with black chalk indications on paper
Dimensions 38 x 51.3 cm (14 15/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-7167
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Inscriptions watercolor: Adriaan Rogge and the letters A R and Strasburg bend and lily
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  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Indication of scale in pen and black ink at lower margin: Scala di Palmi Romi
  • Period: Neoclassical
  • Country: Italy
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